''A Cook's Tour'' is a travel and food show that aired on

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. Host

Anthony Bourdain Anthony Michael Bourdain (; June 25, 1956 – June 8, 2018) was an American celebrity chef, author, and travel documentarian who starred in programs focusing on the exploration of international culture, cuisine, and the human condition. Bourdai ...

visits various countries and cities worldwide where hosts treat him to local culture and cuisine. Two seasons of episodes were produced in 2000 and 2001 and aired first-run in January 2002 through 2003 in the U.S. on the Food Network.

Production

NYU film program graduate, Lydia Tenaglia, working at ''New York Times Television'', picked up the book, '' Kitchen Confidential'', and learning that Bourdain was proposing an ''

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''-style travel journal as a follow-up project, Tenaglia picked up the phone and made a cold call. The show has been filmed with two Sony PD100 DV camcorders.

Reception

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, Phil Gallo says, "For once,

is putting on display food you can’t do at home — and they show that acquiring the ingredients isn’t all pretty before the meal hits the dining room table." Bourdain's account of his trip to Cambodia in Episodes 5 and 6 of Season 1 has been criticised by professor of French and Film Studies at

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Joseph Mai as "filled with tawdry stereotypes" and largely ignoring

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Episodes

Season 1

Season 2

Notes

# Episodes are categorized by region in the DVD box set; one or two regions per disk. ''Disk 1: The United States; Disk 2: Mexico and the Americas; Disk 3: Europe; Disk 4: Morocco and Russia; Disk 5: Australia and Japan; Disk 6: Asia'' # Early versions of the DVD box set were shipped mistakenly missing episode TB1A04, ''Eating on the Mekong''. Replacements were made available by Questar.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Cook's Tour, A 2000s American cooking television series 2002 American television series debuts 2003 American television series endings Food travelogue television series Food Network original programming